T-shirts at the show read, “My fountain pen scoffs at your subpar writing instrument,” and “Don’t touch my nibs.” Companies had names such as Pendemonium and Penquisition.The DC Metro ...

Ystudio Desk Fountain Pen ($220): For the craftsmen behind ystudio, the art of making a pen is as invaluable as the pen’s ability to convey messages and feelings through ink. Big Idea Design Ti Arto ...

The man behind Fountain Pen Memes said he believed the company was unaware of the ink’s immense popularity. On Wednesday, Lamy confirmed to The New York Times that the inks were slightly different.

The enormous patina-green fountain pen juts over the sidewalk on F Street, two blocks from the White House, its gold nib pointing down at the front doors like a command. “Fahrney’s Pens ...

The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. ... Only in recent years have we adopted using ink cartridges for fountain pens.

Design: Fountain pens come in all sorts of designs to choose from. Whether you want a statement-making eye-popping colourway or a simple understated one, a fine or thicker nib, black or blue ink ...

A fountain pen cartridge will give you around 7 to 15 pages of writing, whereas a ballpoint pen contains enough ink to write a continuous line four to five kilometres long. So this category is ...

There are three types of pen ink, he explained: water-based, used in gel, rollerball, and fountain pens; alcohol- or solvent-based, used in felt-tip pens like Sharpies that have that distinctive ...

If your pens are always breaking, disappearing, and running out of ink, it's probably best that you don't invest in expensive, refillable ones. Luckily, these Zebra pens break down to about 58 ...

As literacy grew during the Industrial Revolution, more people were writing letters, and those who could afford the best ...

Of course, you can’t enjoy your fountain pen without ink or paper. There are so many brilliant inks made by big companies—Pilot, Sailor, Montblanc—as well as smaller outfits such as Ferris ...

Fountain pens dominated school desks until the late 1980s, when low-cost ball-points such as the Reynolds 045 swept the ...